{"id":161,"date":"2011-05-01T21:57:34","date_gmt":"2011-05-02T04:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stroyan.net\/lisasblog\/?p=161"},"modified":"2011-05-01T21:57:34","modified_gmt":"2011-05-02T04:57:34","slug":"magic-the-gathering-mtg-theme-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stroyan.net\/lisasblog\/2011\/magic-the-gathering-mtg-theme-cake\/","title":{"rendered":"Magic The Gathering MTG Theme Cake"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Magic The Gathering Cake<\/p><\/div>\n

I made this cake for my son’s 14th birthday, held at Gryphon Games and Comics, our local game store. I thought I would post how I did it, in case anyone is interested in trying it out.<\/p>\n

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Main Cake Ingredients<\/p><\/div>\n

Two of the guests couldn’t have gluten, and one couldn’t have dairy. \u00a0My son requested a lemon cake, so we followed the directions on Pamela’s GF cake mix, two packages, and made 2 9.5 x 11 cakes. \u00a0We needed to level the cakes to make a flat surface, so we sliced the “bump” off the top of each.<\/p>\n

We started with a natural-style icing, but it was sticky and not very opaque, so we used it as a glaze. We \u00a0flavored it with lemon and spread it on one layer as “filling”.<\/p>\n

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Next we placed the un-iced layer upside down on top of the other, and iced the two. This “crumb layer” stops the cake from crumbling when the frosting is put on later:<\/p>\n

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IMPORTANT: Next the cake was frozen overnight, to set the crumb layer and give a hard surface to decorate on.<\/p>\n

The next day when the cake was frozen solid, I mixed the frosting colors. I don’t have pictures, but each color was mixed in a small bowl and then each of the accent colors were\u00a0put into a ziplock baggie.<\/p>\n

I used the following colors: Olive brown, black, orange-brown, light blue, dark brown, purple, and white.<\/p>\n

The background is frosted in olive green, with an orange-brown oval in the center (I cut out an oval from paper and then carved a thin line around it with a knife to mark it). Then after cutting off a small amount of one corner of the plastic bag, I piped on a purple outline around the oval.<\/p>\n

The baggies could be put in either warm or ice water to get them at the right consistency:<\/p>\n

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I found a picture of the MTG logo and enlarged it to the right size for the cake, and printed out the portion that has the words “Magic The GatheringTM”. \u00a0Then I cut out the inside light blue color to make a template. \u00a0I gently laid the template on the cake, and filled in the spaces with light blue frosting, then carefully lifted it off. I did the same thing with the rectangle at the bottom.<\/p>\n

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“Deckmaster” was also piped in, referring to a printout of the logo for letter shapes.<\/p>\n

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Next I piped in the outline for the Magic, and added “The GatheringTM” underneath:<\/p>\n

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Finishing touches include frosting the edges in black, creating a rectangular indent with a knife, and adding min-m&ms (the white and black painted with frosting).<\/p>\n

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I made this cake for my son’s 14th birthday, held at Gryphon Games and Comics, our local game store. I thought I would post how I did it, in case anyone is interested in trying it out. Two of the guests couldn’t have gluten, and one couldn’t have dairy. \u00a0My son requested a lemon cake, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stroyan.net\/lisasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stroyan.net\/lisasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stroyan.net\/lisasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stroyan.net\/lisasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stroyan.net\/lisasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/stroyan.net\/lisasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171,"href":"https:\/\/stroyan.net\/lisasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions\/171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stroyan.net\/lisasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stroyan.net\/lisasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stroyan.net\/lisasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}